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Title card from Google's announcement: the words Guided Vision and the line Visual assistance tailored to your needs, in white on a black background, above a glowing blue pill shape.

Tools

Google launches Guided Vision in Gemini Live, a spoken camera guide for blind users

Google launched Guided Vision in Gemini Live on October 1, 2026. You share your phone camera, and Gemini describes what it sees, answers follow-up questions, and tells you how to move the camera when the subject is out of frame. The feature works on Android 9 and above, in the regions and languages where Gemini Live is supported. Google says it is not a mobility aid and is not intended for navigation or obstacle detection.

GoogleOctober 2verified

Web

A timing chart as the blueprint for SMIL animation in SVG

On August 20 at Smashing Magazine, Johan Grobler described a method in which a complex SMIL animation is first drawn as a timing chart and only then written in markup. Every bar on the chart corresponds to one animate element, and its length and position become the values of the dur and begin attributes. Because a single animate changes exactly one property of one element, the count climbs fast: a three-dot loader takes six of them. The piece also covers synchronizing to another animation's start or end through the begin attribute, and honoring prefers-reduced-motion through the picture element.

Smashing MagazineAugust 21verified